Chapter 8 The Fox Hunt

But it was said that Bei Liangrong had never picked mulberry since she entered the palace, and her little jasper hands only had the rich fragrance of fat powder. She silently and quietly looked at the scenery of the four seasons in front of her, with a hundred flowers competing for beauty, spring, summer, autumn and winter. Only by relying on the swallows on the eaves can you still distinguish the changes from year to year.

"The hands are like soft wattles, the skin is like clotted fat, the collar is like a grub, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, and the head of the mantis is like an eyebrow. Clever smile, beautiful eyes. Wouldn't you be happy with such a beautiful day and such a beautiful woman?"

Wu Wangyi didn't know when he was already standing behind Bei Liang Rong, his hands around his thin waist, and he buried his head in Bei Liang Rong's hair, refreshing people's hearts! The peony and rose in front of the palace hung their heads, the hibiscus moon season was poured for it, and the swallow finches, insects and fish were intoxicated by it!

"Don't do this, King!" Bei Liang Rong said coquettishly, her cheeks showing a hint of redness.

King Wu pretended not to hear and asked, "What did you say?"

"Don't be like this, I'm sorry to be seen!" Bei Liangrong said again.

"What are you afraid of, what if you see it?" replied King Wu.

Bei Liang Rong knew that she couldn't beat King Wu, so she didn't say anything.

Then there was a silence, and there seemed to be an unbridgeable gap between the two. Bei Liang Rong's eyes were filled with King Wu, but she was always thinking of another person in her heart. King Wu has thousands of palace people in his eyes, but he has a humble Liang Rong in his heart. Who is lonely and alone, how can you know that loneliness hurts both hearts?

King Wu broke the frozen situation, hugged Bei Liang Rong, and asked softly:

"Rong'er, will you accompany the widow to hunt tomorrow?"

Bei Liang Rong was shocked: Hunting? That's a man's business, why do you need a woman to accompany her? She felt inexplicable, and there was a surprised look in her eyes.

"What's wrong, don't you want to go?" King Wu stared down at her.

"......" Bei Liangrong felt very embarrassed, she still groveled in front of King Wu, feeling that King Wu was like a towering mountain, which was admirable. A black, thick beard that has never been trimmed.

"The king, a weak woman in the slave family, it's a bit ...... to accompany the king to hunt Not quite right. ”

"You are only interested when you accompany the widow!" Wu Wangyi looked at her affectionately.

Bei Liangrong's cheeks are like a gorgeous sunset on the horizon, a touch of red, transparent but with a hint of sadness.

The next day, King Wu summoned Wu Zhu to choose an auspicious day to hunt, which coincided with spring, so it was called Chunjiao. King Wu and the ministers came to the ancestral hall, Wu Zhu ordered people to set up an altar, set up three animals, and ordered the boy to take yarrow and divination. When everything was ready, King Wu toasted and performed the sacrificial ceremony, and Wu Zhu stood aside, chanting incantations that outsiders could not understand.

King Wu Jishou, sacrifice Matsu, Tianxi descended to the spirit.

Wu Zhu was beside him, kneeling on the ground, his hands stretched out above his head, as if absorbing the aura of heaven and earth. Bow your head and pick up the yarrow on the ground, and there is a cloud in the Book of Changes: "Yarrow is born in the land and dies in Yin for a thousand years." One hundred years old Fang Sheng forty-nine stems, enough to bear the number of heaven and earth, five hundred years old shape gradually dry and solid, seven hundred years old without branches and leaves, nine hundred years old purple like iron, a thousand years old on the purple gas, under the spirit dragon turtle crouching below. ”

I saw that Wu Zhu first took out one of the fifty yarrows, which was for "Tai Chi"; then he divided the remaining forty-nine into two halves, holding half of each of the left hand and the right hand, which was the "two instruments"; and then took out one from the right hand and sandwiched it between the little finger and the ring finger of the left hand, which was the "person" of the "three talents";

I also saw Wu Zhu's left and right hands rotating yarrow, and counted three times, which was for the "three changes".

A quarter of an hour passed, and there were twenty-eight yarrow left, looking at the hexagram composed of yarrow, Wu Zhu confidently said to King Wu:

"King, the day of Xinwei is an auspicious day!"

King Wu smiled:

"Okay!

Bei Liangrong's smile appeared in his mind, smiling like a flower, like a river of spring water, pure and charming. He thought that he had promised Bei Liangrong yesterday to take her to taste the taste of hunting, although she was not very willing at the time, but in the end she agreed, as the king of a country, how could she break her word?

On the fourth day after the sacrifice to Matsu, that is, on the day of Xinwei, King Wu led his ministers to a field hunting ground with dense water and grass in the east of the city. This field hunting ground is newly built soon after the accession of Wu Wangyi, with a radius of 200 miles, specially set up an eagle hunting workshop, and another 300 horsemen, specializing in daily horse breeding. Its trees are Nan Nan Yuzhang, cinnamon pepper magnolia, green vine pan aid, and the branches are vigorous; its soil is green ochre, female yellow and white stalk, copper, iron, tin silver, jade and jade; its things are white tigers and leopards, elk and rhinos, spirit foxes and cunning rabbits, flying snakes and cuckoos. There are all kinds of rare and exotic beasts in the world.

King Wu rode a cold horse, bundled and scattered, his clothes fluttered, and he was majestic. Bei Liang Rong sat tremblingly in front of King Wu, her hands were tightened, her bean sprout-like neck was pressed against her thin shoulders, her eyes were closed, and she didn't dare to look straight ahead.

The cold horses galloped vigorously, stepping on a burst of loess, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the birds in the distant woods were like the wind.

"Rong'er, don't be afraid, there is a widow!" King Wu said to Beiliang Rong in his arms.

Bei Liang Rong was so frightened that she didn't dare to squeak, as if she had lost her soul.

"Rong'er, are you okay?" King Wu asked again, his voice was much louder than just now, as if he thought that Bei Liang Rong hadn't heard it just now.

"The King...... The slave family is afraid of ...... I'm afraid of falling!" Bei Liang Rong said weakly.

King Wu quipped:

"You don't believe in the technology of the widows?"

"No...... No...... The slave family believed in the king's skills...... "Bei Liang Rong knows that King Wu's riding skills are very good, but this is the first time he has sat on a horse, how can he not be nervous, and said, "I'm just scared ......"

King Wu didn't say a word, his eyes staring ahead.

Bei Liang Rong felt that the speed of the Han Horse was much slower than Fang Cai.

The eagles rode horses and followed behind King Wu, not daring to cross the cold horses, and the ministers were also flanks of King Wu.

Suddenly, King Wu commanded:

"There is movement in the forest to the east, let's go and see with the widow!"

The eagles tightened their reins and galloped east with King Wu with the Han horses. The neighing of horses, the movement of the wind and grass, accompanied by the chirping of insects and birds, and the faint sound of the snorts of birds and beasts.

"My lord, there seems to be movement in the bushes ahead!" said an eagle.

King Wu was calm and composed, and slowly pulled the reins. He looked around, and the eagles and the ministers followed and reined in their horses.

I saw a bush less than ten meters away, and through the gap in the lush leaves, a hoof like a cow, large and wide, emerged.

King Wu's eyes flashed with a sharp gaze, like an arrow, full of murderous aura, shooting straight into the grass. Bei Liangrong was silent and sat quietly on the horse.

The elk sensed the sound of the horse's breathing, and hurried to run, running freely among the vines and weeds, breaking branches from time to time.

"Drive-" King Wu immediately knocked the horse's belly with his heel, and the cold horse ran desperately.

King Wu held the reins and shuttled freely through the woods, chasing the elk to the death.

Bei Liang Rong had a frightened expression, and when she was riding on her horse at this time, she felt a gust of wind whistling in her ears. The leaves and branches of the trees next to it kept swaying in front of me, like a rain of arrows on the battlefield!

"Don't be afraid, Rong'er, see how the widow caught that guy!"

King Wu still stared intently at the elk running in front of him, as if he could kill it with his own eyes.

The Han horse rose up to catch up, less than thirty meters away from the elk, King Wu pulled out an arrow from his back, held the bow, calmly put the arrow on the line, pulled the bow hard, his eyes firmly grasped the elk, only heard a "whoosh" sound, the elk's hind legs ate an arrow, and the speed slowed down.

Bei Liangrong couldn't help but be stunned when she saw this scene. She was amazed that King Wu was so accurate in his archery, and that he could be so heroic in such a dense jungle, and that he could ride a horse to hunt down an elk, but she felt compassion for a poor elk that had been shot and seriously wounded, and she could not bear to look at it directly.

King Wu laughed and said with a smile:

"Rong'er, you see that the widow didn't lie to you!"

Bei Liang Rong nodded timidly.

"What's wrong with you?

Bei Liang Rong pursed her lips and replied with a smile:

"The King ...... Bravely"

King Wu had a proud look on his face, full of ambition.

The elk still dragged the wounded back forward, looking back from time to time, and its two slender eyes stared at King Wu, revealing a pitiful and hateful look, as if begging King Wu, and like a burning fire!

King Wu looked at the injured elk in front of him proudly, looking high. The minister next to him took the opportunity to praise King Wu:

"The king is extremely brave and has excellent archery skills, he is simply Hou Yi in the world!"

"I think Hou Yi is also ashamed!"

King Wu's face was happy, his black beard was shining, and the arrows on his back revealed a trace of cold phosgene.

Suddenly, a white shadow jumped over the cold horse, and the horse was frightened, and there was a neigh, and the front legs were raised, and the front half of the body was almost straight, and the whole horse seemed to be standing. King Wu grabbed the reins of the horse, almost fell off the horse, and broke out in a cold sweat, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, as if it was an impure turbid pearl. Bei Liang Rong was even more frightened, and the whole person fainted, crooked in King Wu's arms.

"Rong'er!Rong'er!" King Wu called anxiously, "How are you?"

King Wu stabilized the horse and helped up Bei Liang Rong in his arms, between which Bei Liang Rong was pale in color and had no blood on her face.

"Rong'er! Rong'er, wake up!"

Bei Liang Rong still didn't react, and her mouth snorted, as if she was saying something.

"Quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor!" said the courtier beside him hurriedly.

King Wu took Bei Liangrong off the horse and put her on a straw mat. The imperial doctor hurriedly ran over, checked the pulse, and said:

"The king is relieved, he is just frightened and faints, just take a tranquilizing pill. ”

"This reassures me, do you wish Rong'er died!"

Seeing that Bei Liang Rong's face was still ugly and not yet sober, King Wu scolded loudly:

"You dog doctor, you raised you for nothing!"

"The king is angry, Concubine Beiliang will wake up later. It was Dr. Wu who hurriedly broke the siege.

"Yes!" the ministers chimed in.

King Wu was slightly less stunned at this time, and stroked Bei Liang Rong's forehead with his left hand, and his right hand tightened Bei Liang Rong's hand.

"King, there's a white fox coming towards us!" a hawkman reported.

"King, I'll take a few people to catch that beast!" General Tu volunteered.

King Wu waved his hand and said:

"I'll go!"

"This ...... The King ......"

King Wu interrupted him and commanded:

"Send a few people with me, and leave a few people to take care of Concubine Beiliang!"

The white fox's eyes shone green, like two green emerald gems, its white fur was like the snow of the mountains in winter, its limbs were strong and powerful, its hind legs were bent and supported on the ground, like arrows on a string, ready to attack at any time, and its snort was heavy, and it made a whirring sound.

Everyone was very surprised, why is there such a huge white fox, why did the white fox attack King Wu?

King Wu's face was full of anger, and he forcefully pulled out an arrow from the quiver, pulled up his bow vigorously, and aimed at the target, just about to shoot at the white fox.

The white fox was unflustered, and his eyes looked straight at King Wu.

Everyone was shocked and looked at each other.